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2017 / The Griefers of Bandung, a novella written collectively by fourteen authors, a gripping romantic fantasy shifting with fiendish aplomb between characters and voices, perspectives and plotlines.

DAI’s Publishing Class proudly presents:

The Griefers of Bandung

Dark web gamers, virtual posers, nomadic dreamers, far-out spacers and mystic tracers ~ The Griefers of Bandung transmits the voices of a generation on the cusp of its own rising sign….

Synopsis:

Dutch art student Elsemieke Kiekens has just spent the last three months in Bandung, searching for love and fighting alongside a local activist collective. Meanwhile, her virtual avatar Virgo has become a resistance hero involved in weapons-trafficking, corporate-boycotts, rally-organising, illegal-fundraising and cybertheft. It turns out the effects of these operations are not limited to cyberspace. Now, overwhelmed by a series of unexpected encounters, Elsemieke finds herself on a plane back to the Netherlands. She is soon to understand that the worst is yet to come.

The Griefers of Bandung is published in the context of the DAI 2016-17 COOP Academy Publishing Class,I Left my pdf in Arnhem, curated by Sarah Pierce and Tirdad Zolghadr.